Vessel

Rosita Tovell's father was a collector of Peruvian pre-Columbian ceramics. Rosita moved to Peru in the early 1960s, while her husband served as ambassador to Peru and Bolivia. During this time Rosita began to study and collect pre-Columbian Peruvian ceramics and textiles.

Polychrome vessel with thin spout, rounded base, lenticular body and everted rim. Two whale deity designs are painted in vessel body with proliferous heads and a trophy head hanging from their mouths. Inner red-brown rim has five white profile birds with black dots in the interior and white dots between them. Painted in cream, grey, red-brown, orange-brown, light yellow, dark grey and black. Molded manufacture; polished surface. Breakage repaired.